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IAAF Golden League

The ÅF Golden League (previously IAAF Golden League) is an annual series of athletics

Athletics (track and field)

Track and field athletics, commonly known as athletics or track and field, is a collection of sports events that involve running, throwing and jumping....
meetings organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations

International Association of Athletics Federations

The International Association of Athletics Federations is the international Sport governing body for the sport of athletics . It was founded in 1912 during a war, at its first congress in Stockholm, Sweden, Sweden by representatives from 17 national athletics federations as the International Amateur Athletics Federation....
(IAAF).

The series was formed to increase the profile of the leading athletics competitions. Athletes (in selected events) who win their event at all six meetings take a share of a USD

United States dollar

The United States dollar is the unit of currency of the United States and was defined by the Coinage Act of 1792 to be between 371 and 416 grains of silver ....
1 million jackpot. In addition, events at Golden League meetings scored more Grand Prix points than other Grand Prix meetings.

The 2009 Golden League will be the last under the Golden League format.

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The ÅF Golden League (previously IAAF Golden League) is an annual series of athletics

Athletics (track and field)

International Association of Athletics Federations

United States dollar

IAAF Diamond League

The IAAF Diamond League is an annual series of track and field athletics meets to be held from 2010 onwards. It will be organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations and is destined to replace the ?F Golden League, which has been held annually since 1998....
.

History

The first Golden League season was held in 1998, consisting of the meetings of Oslo

Bislett Games

The Bislett Games is an annual Athletics at the Bislett stadion in Oslo, Norway that takes place as the first meeting of the IAAF Golden League....
, Rome

Golden Gala

Golden Gala is an annual Athletics at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy that takes place on July 8 as the second meeting of the IAAF Golden League....
, Monaco

Herculis

The Herculis is an annual athletics meet in Monaco, that first took place in 2003, but the second edition took place on 20 August....
, Zürich

Weltklasse Zürich

Weltklasse Z?rich is an annual Athletics meeting at the Letzigrund in Z?rich, Switzerland that takes place on August 19 as the fourth part of the IAAF Golden League....
, Brussels

Memorial Van Damme

Memorial van Damme is an annual Athletics event at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels, Belgium that takes place on August 26 as the fifth part of the IAAF Golden League....
and Berlin

ISTAF

The Internationales Stadionfest is an annual Athletics meet at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany that takes place on the 3 September as the final meet of the IAAF Golden League....
.

In 1999 a seventh event, Meeting Gaz de France

Meeting Gaz de France

Meeting Gaz de France is an annual Athletics at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, Paris, France that takes place on July 1 as the first meeting of IAAF Golden League ....
, at St-Denis

Saint-Denis

Saint-Denis is a commune in France in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 9.4 kilometres from the Kilometre Zero. Saint-Denis is a sous-pr?fecture of the Seine-Saint-Denis d?partement in France, being the seat of the Arrondissement of Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis....
, Paris

Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
was added.

In 2000 and 2001, the USD 1 million was reduced to 50 kg of gold

Gold

Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au and atomic number 79. It is a highly sought-after precious metal, having been used as money, as a store of value, in jewelry, in sculpture, and for ornamentation since the beginning of recorded history....
bars and athletes only had to win at 5 out of 7 meetings to qualify for the jackpot.

In 2003, the 50 kg of gold bars was reverted back to USD 1 million and Monaco was dropped from the league after it was awarded the IAAF World Athletics Final

IAAF World Athletics Final

The IAAF World Athletics Final was inaugurated in 2003 to replace the IAAF Grand Prix Final.The former Grand Prix Final never had consistency of events included whereas the hope of the World Final is to keep to a consistent program of 35 events....
.

In 2004, the Bislett Games

Bislett Games

The Bislett Games is an annual Athletics at the Bislett stadion in Oslo, Norway that takes place as the first meeting of the IAAF Golden League....
were moved from Oslo to Bergen due to the redevelopment of the Bislett stadion

Bislett stadion

Bislett stadion is a sports stadium in Oslo, Norway. Bislett is Norway's most well known sports arena internationally, with 15 speed skating world records and more than 50 track and field world records having been set here....
.

For the 2006 Golden League, the total prize pool remained at USD 1 million, but the award structure had been changed:

Athletes who won any five of the six events would share in a purse of USD 500,000.
The remaining USD 500,000 would be divided among athletes who won all six meetings.

In 2007, the Jackpot of USD 1 million were only to be shared amongst those athletes who won at all six meetings. In case no athlete had managed to win all six meetings, USD 500,000 would have been shared amongst those who won at five of the six meetings.

In 2008 IAAF signed a two year agreement with the Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
company ÅF

ÅF

?F is a Sweden technical consulting company. It was formed in 1895 and is one of the biggest consulting companies in Sweden. ?F was previously known as ?ngpannef?reningen....
for title sponsorship, thus renaming IAAF Golden League to ÅF Golden League.

Various rules have changed as the new competition finds its feet. The list of events which qualify for the jackpot is different each year, but there are usually six men's events and six (four for 2008) women's. For the year 2008, the disciplines were:

Men: 100m, 400m, 1500m, 400m Hurdles, Long Jump, Javelin Throw.
Women: 200m, 800m, 100m Hurdles, High Jump.

For 2009, the disciplines are:

Men: 100m, 400m, 3000/5000m, 110m Hurdles, Javelin Throw.
Women: 100m, 400m, 100m Hurdles, High Jump, Pole Vault.

Jackpot winners

Year	Winners	Event(s)	Prize
1998 Details	Hicham El Guerrouj Hicham El Guerrouj Hicham El Guerrouj is a Morocco former Middle distance track event. He is the World records in athletics holder for the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's 1500 metres , the World record progression for the mile run and the outdoor Middle_distance_track_event#2000_m , and a double Olympic Games gold medalist.... (1)	1500 m Middle distance track event Middle distance track events are track races longer than sprints up to 3000 metres.... /mile	$ 333,333
		5000 m/10000 m
	Marion Jones Marion Jones Marion Lois Jones, also known as Marion Jones-Thompson , is an United States former world champion Athletics . She won five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia but has since agreed to forfeit all medals and prizes dating back to September 2000 after admitting that she took performance-enhancing drugs....	100 m
1999	Wilson Kipketer Wilson Kipketer Wilson Kipketer is a former Denmark Middle distance track event running. He holds the current world records at both indoor and outdoor 800 m and the indoor 1000 m metre distances....	800 m	$ 500,000
1999	Gabriela Szabo Gabriela Szabo Gabriela Szabo is a Romanian Athletics athlete, winner of the gold medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics in 5000 m and winner of bronze and silver medals in 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics in 1500 m, respectively....	3000 m/5000 m	$ 500,000
2000 Details	Hicham El Guerrouj Hicham El Guerrouj Hicham El Guerrouj is a Morocco former Middle distance track event. He is the World records in athletics holder for the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's 1500 metres , the World record progression for the mile run and the outdoor Middle_distance_track_event#2000_m , and a double Olympic Games gold medalist.... (2)	1500 m Middle distance track event Middle distance track events are track races longer than sprints up to 3000 metres.... /mile	12.5 kg Gold Bar Gold bar A gold bar is a gold ingot which may be produced in many different types, weights and categories....
	Maurice Greene Maurice Greene (athlete) Maurice Greene now retired, is an United States former Sprint in athletics , who holds several world records and Olympic medalists in athletics ....	100 m
	Trine Hattestad Trine Hattestad Trine Hattestad is a former Norway javelin thrower. She was born on 18 April 1966 in L?renskog, Norway.Hattestad made her international debut at the European Junior Championships in 1981 with a fifth place....	javelin Javelin throw The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the Javelin , a spear-like object made of metal, Glass-reinforced plastic and, in some cases, carbon fiber....
	Tatyana Kotova Tatyana Kotova Tatyana Vladimirovna Kotova is an athlete who competes for Russia in the long jump. Her statistics are listed as:Her personal best was a jump of 7.42 m at Annecy in 2002....	long jump Long jump The long jump is an athletics event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far from the take-off point as possible....
2001 Details	André Bucher André Bucher Andr? Bucher is a retired Swiss 800 metres runner. He is mostly known for winning the gold medal at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics in Edmonton in his event....	800 m	8.33 kg Gold Bar
	Hicham El Guerrouj Hicham El Guerrouj Hicham El Guerrouj is a Morocco former Middle distance track event. He is the World records in athletics holder for the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's 1500 metres , the World record progression for the mile run and the outdoor Middle_distance_track_event#2000_m , and a double Olympic Games gold medalist.... (3)	1500 m/mile/2000 m
	Allen Johnson Allen Johnson Allen Kenneth Johnson is a hurdling Athletics and won Olympic Gold in the 110 metre high hurdles at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia....	110 m hurdles Hurdling Hurdling is a type of track and field athletics race. There are sprint hurdle races and long hurdle races. The standard sprint hurdle race is 110 metres hurdles for men and 100 metres hurdles for women....
	Marion Jones Marion Jones Marion Lois Jones, also known as Marion Jones-Thompson , is an United States former world champion Athletics . She won five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia but has since agreed to forfeit all medals and prizes dating back to September 2000 after admitting that she took performance-enhancing drugs.... (2)	100 m
	Violeta Szekely Violeta Szekely Violeta Szekely, n?e Beclea is a Romanian former Middle distance track event who mainly competed in 1500 Metres. She competed in two Olympic Games, in Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics and Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics....	1500 m
	Olga Yegorova Olga Yegorova Olga Yegorova is a Russian middle distance runner.At the 2000 Summer Olympics she competed in 5000 metres, and she is a double world champion in this event, but like countryfellow Tatyana Tomashova she has concentrated on shorter races since, now competing mainly in the 1500 metres....	3000 m/5000 m
2002 Details	Hicham El Guerrouj Hicham El Guerrouj Hicham El Guerrouj is a Morocco former Middle distance track event. He is the World records in athletics holder for the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's 1500 metres , the World record progression for the mile run and the outdoor Middle_distance_track_event#2000_m , and a double Olympic Games gold medalist.... (4)	1500 m	12.5 kg Gold Bar
	Ana Guevara Ana Guevara Ana Gabriela Guevara Espinoza is a now-retired Mexico Athletics athlete, specialized in the 400 meters.her career began in 1996 carrying out diverse tours, participating in her first international competences....	400 m
	Marion Jones Marion Jones Marion Lois Jones, also known as Marion Jones-Thompson , is an United States former world champion Athletics . She won five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia but has since agreed to forfeit all medals and prizes dating back to September 2000 after admitting that she took performance-enhancing drugs.... (3)	100 m
	Felix Sánchez Felix Sanchez F?lix S?nchez —nicknamed Super Felix, the Invincible and the Dictator— is a track and field sportsperson from New York City, New York ....	400 m hurdles
2003 Details		800 m	$ 1,000,000
2004 Details 2004 IAAF Golden League The 2004 IAAF Golden League was a series of athletics meetings organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations.Originally taking place in Oslo, Rome, Monaco, Z?rich, Brussels and Berlin, the Bislett Games was temporarily moved from Oslo to Fana due to the redevelopment of the Bislett stadion....	Christian Olsson Christian Olsson \|- bgcolor="#cccccc" align=center! colspan="3" \| EAA European ChampionshipsChristian Olsson is an Athletics competing in high jump and triple jump....	triple jump Triple jump The triple jump is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a ?hop, step and jump? routine, whereby the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a step and then a jump into the sand pit....	$ 500,000
	Tonique Williams-Darling Tonique Williams-Darling Tonique Williams-Darling is a Bahamas Sprint Athletics . She won the gold medal in the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 400 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece....	400 m	$ 500,000
2005 Details	Tatyana Lebedeva Tatyana Lebedeva Tatyana Romanovna Lebedeva is a Russian Athletics who competes on the world stage in both the long jump and triple jump disciplines.In the finals of the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics, after equalling Ashia Hansen's triple jump indoor world record with her first jump, Tatyana then improved on this twice finishing with a...	triple jump Triple jump The triple jump is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a ?hop, step and jump? routine, whereby the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a step and then a jump into the sand pit....	$ 1,000,000
2006 Details	Asafa Powell Asafa Powell Asafa Powell Order of Distinction is a Jamaican Sprint who specialises in the 100 metres. He held the 100 m World records in athletics between June 2005 and May 2008, with times of 9.77 and 9.74 seconds respectively....	100 m	$ 249,999*
	Jeremy Wariner Jeremy Wariner Jeremy Mathew Wariner is an United States Athletics specializing in the 400 meters. He has won four Olympic games medals and four IAAF World Championships in Athletics medals....	400 m
	Sanya Richards Sanya Richards Sanya Richards is a track and field athlete who competes internationally for the United States. She was a gold medalist in the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece and at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China....	400 m
	Kenenisa Bekele Kenenisa Bekele Kenenisa Bekele is an Ethiopian athletics long distances who holds the world records in the 5000 metres and long distance track event. He is the reigning two-time Olympic champion over 10,000 metres and the most accomplished runner in IAAF World Cross Country Championships history, with six long course and five short course titles....	5,000 m	$ 83,333*
	Tirunesh Dibaba Tirunesh Dibaba Tirunesh Dibaba also known as Tirunesh Dibaba Kenene is an Ethiopian long-distance track event track Athletics and the outdoor 5000 metres World records in athletics holder....	5,000 m
	Irving Saladino Irving Saladino Irving Jahir Saladino Aranda is a Panamanian long jumper. He is the current World and Olympic champion, and Panama's first Olympic gold medallist....	Long Jump Long jump The long jump is an athletics event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far from the take-off point as possible....
2007 Details 2007 IAAF Golden League The 2007 IAAF Golden League is the 2007 edition of the IAAF's annual series of six athletics meets, held across Europe, with athletes having the chance to win the Golden League Jackpot of $1 million....	Yelena Isinbayeva Yelena Isinbayeva Yelena Gadzhievna Isinbaeva is a Russian pole vaulter. She is a two-time Olympic Gold Medalist , was named Female Athlete of the Year by the IAAF in 2004, 2005 and 2008, and World Sportswoman of the Year by Laureus....	pole vault Pole vault Pole vaulting is an athletic athletics event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a #bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greece, as well as the Crete and Celts....	$ 500,000
	Sanya Richards Sanya Richards Sanya Richards is a track and field athlete who competes internationally for the United States. She was a gold medalist in the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece and at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.... (2)	400 m	$ 500,000
2008 Details 2008 IAAF Golden League The 2008 IAAF Golden League is the 11 edition of the IAAF's annual series of six athletics meets, held across Europe, with athletes having the chance to win the Golden League Jackpot of $1 million....	Pamela Jelimo Pamela Jelimo Pamela Jelimo is a Kenyan athlete specialising in the 800 metres. She won the gold medal at the Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing....	800m	$ 1,000,000

Meetings

Current meetings for 2008

Date	Meet	Stadium	City	Country
14 June	ISTAF ISTAF The Internationales Stadionfest is an annual Athletics meet at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany that takes place on the 3 September as the final meet of the IAAF Golden League....	Olympiastadion	Berlin Berlin Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....	Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
3 July	Bislett Games Bislett Games The Bislett Games is an annual Athletics at the Bislett stadion in Oslo, Norway that takes place as the first meeting of the IAAF Golden League....	Bislett stadion Bislett stadion Bislett stadion is a sports stadium in Oslo, Norway. Bislett is Norway's most well known sports arena internationally, with 15 speed skating world records and more than 50 track and field world records having been set here....	Oslo Oslo is the Capital and largest List of cities in Norway in Norway.Metropolitan Oslo or the Greater Oslo Region makes up the third largest urban area in Scandinavia after Metropolitan Stockholm and Metropolitan Copenhagen....	Norway Norway Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
10 July	Golden Gala Golden Gala Golden Gala is an annual Athletics at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy that takes place on July 8 as the second meeting of the IAAF Golden League....	Stadio Olimpico Stadio Olimpico Stadio Olimpico, located on the Foro Italico, is the major stadium of Rome, Italy. It is the home of the Italian national football team, as well as of both local teams A.S....	Rome Rome Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....	Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
17 July	Meeting Gaz de France Meeting Gaz de France Meeting Gaz de France is an annual Athletics at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, Paris, France that takes place on July 1 as the first meeting of IAAF Golden League ....	Stade de France Stade de France The Stade de France is the national stadium of France, situated in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis. It has an all-seater capacity of 80,000 and is used for the France national rugby union team during the Six Nations Championship and other major internationals....	Saint-Denis Saint-Denis Saint-Denis is a commune in France in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 9.4 kilometres from the Kilometre Zero. Saint-Denis is a sous-pr?fecture of the Seine-Saint-Denis d?partement in France, being the seat of the Arrondissement of Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis....	France France France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
28 August	Weltklasse Zürich Weltklasse Zürich Weltklasse Z?rich is an annual Athletics meeting at the Letzigrund in Z?rich, Switzerland that takes place on August 19 as the fourth part of the IAAF Golden League....	Letzigrund Letzigrund is a stadium in Z?rich, Switzerland, and the home of the football club FC Z?rich. It is also temporarily home to the football club Grasshopper-Club Z?rich while their stadium is under construction....	Zürich Zürich Z?rich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Z?rich. The city is Switzerland's main commercial and cultural centre and sometimes called the Cultural Capital of Switzerland, the political capital of Switzerland being Berne....	Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
4 September	Memorial van Damme Memorial Van Damme Memorial van Damme is an annual Athletics event at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels, Belgium that takes place on August 26 as the fifth part of the IAAF Golden League....	King Baudouin Stadium King Baudouin Stadium The King Baudouin Stadium is a sports ground in north-west Brussels, Belgium. It was inaugurated on August 23, 1930 as the Stade du Jubil? or Jubelstadion in the presence of Leopold III of Belgium....	Brussels Brussels Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....	Belgium Belgium * A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....

Prior to 2003, a seventh meet, Herculis

Herculis

The Herculis is an annual athletics meet in Monaco, that first took place in 2003, but the second edition took place on 20 August....
, was held in Monaco

Monaco

Monaco , officially the Principality of Monaco , is a small sovereign city-state located in South Western Europe . The territory lies on the northern coast of the Mediterranean Sea....

IAAF Golden League

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